Given all this, most sane New Yorkers would rather eat their money than join the rentier class.

ECONOMIST: Housing in New York City

As technology proceeds in a patent-obsessed world, the fruits of innovation flow to the owners of the capital and invention, forming a whole new rentier class.

FORBES: That Robot Economy And The Rentier Class

You are in a minority here in America and, I imagine, everywhere else where people do not have the economic mentality of a prissy, doddering rentier.

ECONOMIST: Letters

They will once again become what they used to be before a century of prosperity allowed large segments of the population to go to college: preserves of the children of rentier elites.

FORBES: Entrepreneurs are the New Labor: Part III

Here she describes what drove the British and the Americans in 2007 to try to bring back Benazir Bhutto, a manoeuvre that showed beyond all doubt the depth of Pakistan's doleful rentier status.

ECONOMIST: The forces of destiny

Morgan Chase, warns the rentier class about overspending.

FORBES: Protecting Your Stash

Robbing the rentier pays even better.

ECONOMIST: A tempting target for impoverished governments

It will be, moreover, a great advantage of the order of events which I am advocating, that the euthanasia of the rentier, of the functionless investor, will be nothing sudden, merely a gradual but prolonged continuance of what we have seen recently .

FORBES: Greece's Disgraceful Debt Default -- and Calls to "Euthanize" Bondholders